The 43-year-old urologist even told the patient, aged in her 30s, he wanted to marry her and have a son with her – before she discovered he already had a wife and two daughters, she said.

At the Medical Practitioners Tribunal Service, the woman, identified only as Patient A, opened up about the six-month affair, which started in July 2012 when he comforted her at Croydon University Hospital.

She said: ‘If I had known that what was happening to me was something dreadful, that something dreadful had happened to me I would have had the police at my door.

They met at Croydon University Hospital (Picture: PA)

‘He told me sex was good for my condition numerous times. Initially I thought that it was going to help me get my feelings back, I just wanted to be normal again.

‘I thought, ‘wow isn’t it great to have your own personal doctor looking after you’. Now I feel like I was groomed into a relationship with this man.’